Delaney's poem—while haunting—is an accurate ... at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, tells SELF that addictive drugs like heroin actually change how the brain works.

It includes 20 poems written by her son ... but left college to address his addiction issues and enrolled in several drug rehabilitation programs, according to his mother.

The drug had taken control of her life ... she forwarded her sister a poem about trying to overcome heroin addiction. Delaney's parents included the poem in her obituary. Here it is, in its ...

“You are an addiction that no amount of prayers will ever cure,” reads one poem, titled “A beautiful boy is a deadly drug,” seemingly a callback to the “Achingly Beautiful Boy” caption ...

(WPVI) -- The parents of a 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman who overdosed on heroin have included a poem in her obituary that she wrote about struggling with addiction. The obituary for Delaney ...